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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1912
Page
5
The sale offers samples, odd pieces, furniture and house fittings ahead of Christmas. Prices are described as low with an emphasis on value, and the store promises ongoing healthy values and truthful advertising without exaggeration.
A large scale clearance offers substantial price cuts on bedroom living room dining room and parlor furniture. Many pieces including iron beds chairs rockers davenports mission and mahogany dining sets are marked down with red tags to guide shoppers.
A clipped ad lists assorted home textiles including sheets at 75 to 150 cents, Turkish bath towels, face towels, large bed spreads, and silklined comforters. Descriptions emphasize good quality and clean filling.
In the Drapery Department a clearance sale offers reduced prices on portieres, scrims, lace curtains, cretonnes, upholstery tapestries, and madras fabrics. Items like silk portieres, scrims, lace curtains, and madras are marked down from regular ranges such as $0.25 to $1.00 per yard and $1.50 to $8.50 per yard, with most lots advertised as “these prices to close.”
The Rummage Sale offers low prices on glassware chinaware and graniteware. Prices listed include goblets $4.00 per dozen and whiskey glasses $2.00 per dozen with various sale reductions. Decorated china items and salts peppers, and mustard pots are advertised at small prices.
Crowd gathers for a rummage sale offering 72 Wilton and Axminster carpet patterns at deep discounts. Wiltons and Velvets priced near $1.75 to $2.50 per yard, Body Brussels at $1.50 to $1.65, and Axminster about $1.25. Remnants of Wilton Axminster Brussels and linoleums available in small sizes.
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